Witches Burn at Dawn ✔

Characters (+art)

I thought about listing some facts about our characters here as some readers get slightly confused sometimes.

My characters almost never talk about their sexuality bluntly. Fistly, because I love metaphors, yes. I believe that a book is being created by both a writer and a reader, and no matter what I, as a writer, put down into words, every person who reads these words will interpret them differently. Because we're different, dah! Isn't it wonderful? We're all different and unique and see something special we can share with the rest of the world.

The second reason is, I don't really like to point out the difference between people's sexual orientations. When we do that, we often subconsciously seek the reasons to judge people. To explain their choices and either agree or disagree. Instead of speaking of what makes us different, I prefer speaking of what unites us. Of what makes us a big happy family where everyone is an artist of their own destiny. Of finding the beauty in diversity.

Anyway.

If you're here either to find a missing piece of the story that you accidentally scrolled past while reading, or to check whether your ideas match mine, let's find out! Here we go... It's never stated throughout the story, but Yaroslava is demisexual. Mir is bi. Bogdan is asexual, though not aromantic. Ady and Gyoku are gay. Laverna--pan. Jasna is lesbian/gender-fluid.

Below you'll also find some beautiful portraits of our characters made with AI. Enjoy ❤

Yaroslava:

Yaroslava in Polina's body:

Mir: